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Mary Hawkes-Greene, president of Burren College of Art will be visiting on Wednesday, Sept. 26 to give a presentation. Burren College of Art is a small, independent art college located in rural County Clare, Ireland. Their undergraduate programs consist of Individual Study Abroad students coming from over 40 partnering US colleges and universities for 1-2...

Associate Professor of Art Daniel Harkett has published an essay on the innovative German curator and museum director Alexander Dorner. Harkett explores Dorner’s transformative plans for the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1930s and the resistance Dorner encountered from the local elite. The essay, “Tea vs. Beer: Class, Ethnicity,...

Associate Professor of Art Garry Mitchell has always been fascinated by maps. Through various elements of design, from typography to color theory to data visualization, they beautifully capture complex notions about space, scale, typography, politics, and much more. In a new body of work on exhibit at Speedwell Projects, Mitchell uses maps as a conceptual...

Faculty Fellow in print and digital media, Amanda Lilleston, has a solo exhibition of prints at Artlink Contemporary Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her exhibition, titled Anatomica Liminalis, will be on view from May 18 through June 22, 2018. The work in the show depicts a long and evolving relationship with human anatomy, physiology and ecology. Using drawing,...

Associate Professor Tanya Sheehan has edited a new collection of essays that thinks through photography’s long and complex relationship to human migration in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis. Published by Routledge, Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other photographs from diverse national, regional, and local contexts. Developed across thirteen...

In a series of posts for the Colby College Museum of Art’s Lantern blog, students from Daniel Harkett’s Writing Art Criticism class share perspectives on the artists included in this year’s Senior Exhibition. The same students also wrote essays that appear in the catalog for the exhibition, along with statements by the artists themselves.

Tanya Sheehan, currently associate professor of art and chair of the art department, has been named distinguished scholar and director of research at the Lunder Institute for American Art. In this new role, which begins in September 2019, Tanya will connect the American art curriculum at Colby with scholarship in the field of American art well beyond...

Assistant Professor Marta Ameri is a co-editor of the newly released book, Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World. The book was published in May 2018 by Cambridge University Press. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in...

The Art Department is thrilled to announce that Juliet Sperling will be joining the Colby faculty in the fall of 2018! She will hold a three-year position in Art, teaching a variety of courses in American art history. Completing her doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania this spring, Ms. Sperling studies American material and...

AR216 Facing America: Race and Representation, 1492 to the Present Four credit hours. Professor Juliet Sperling This course explores how visual culture has shaped ideas of racial difference in North America, from circa 1492 to the present. Focusing on representations of bodies, we will examine prints, paintings, performances, films, and photographs that contributed to...